2025 Summer Intern, PhD, Research - MLLM / Foundation Models jobs in United States
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Waymo · 1 year ago

2025 Summer Intern, PhD, Research - MLLM / Foundation Models

positionMountain View, CA, USA
timeInternship
remoteOnsite
seniorityIntern
money$60.10/hr - $60.10/hr

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company aiming to improve transportation through self-driving technology. The PhD Research Intern will extend and fine-tune multimodal large language models, explore their reasoning capabilities for driving tasks, and evaluate model performance on various datasets.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
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Responsibilities

Extend and fine-tune existing multimodal large language models
Explore leveraging language models' reasoning capabilities to improve end-to-end driving and other various driving tasks
Evaluate model performance on both the Waymo dataset and academia benchmark

Qualification

PythonMachine LearningDeep LearningC/C++PytorchTensorflowLarge Language ModelsJAXComputer VisionStatistical AnalysisApplied MathematicsPhysics

Required

Currently enrolled in a PhD program in computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, physics, or a related technical field of study
Basic software programming or scripting skills (Python, C/C++)
Experience with machine learning or deep learning
Familiar with one of the modern deep learning frameworks (e.g. Pytorch, JAX, Tensorflow)

Preferred

Hands-on experience with large language models, VLMs, multimodal models
Publications from top peer-reviewed conferences (eg: CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, Neurips, ICLR)
Prior industry experience (including internships) in software engineering and computer vision / machine learning

Benefits

Company’s generous benefits programs

Company

Waymo

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Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
dateFounded in 2009
location
Mountain View, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
web-link
https://waymo.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$11.1B
Key Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M

Leadership Team

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Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
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Elisa de Martel
Chief Financial Officer
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Recent News

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